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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Solution to Zeno's Paradox of Motion

Zeno's paradox of motion is false. Zeno begs the question when he says that Achilles must past through an infinite number of halfway points in order to cross the stadium because it presupposes that the whole interval is composed of infinite points, when in fact the unequal intervals add up to a finite distance which is traversable.